Alex Charles CAMERON

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CAMERON, Alex Charles

Service Numbers:	V100770, VX117778
Enlisted:	31 January 1939
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	19 Machine Gun Regiment AMF
Born:	Dandenong, Victoria, Australia, 9 September 1914
Home Town:	Kyabram, Campaspe, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Grocer
Died:	Mount Rowan, Victoria, Australia, 5 June 1975, aged 60 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Ballarat New Cemetery and Crematorium, Victoria The Victorian Garden of Remembrance
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World War 2 Service

31 Jan 1939:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V100770, 38 Infantry Battalion AMF
16 Aug 1942:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V100770, 17 Machine Gun Regiment AMF, Adelaide River, Northern Territory
17 Aug 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX117778
23 Mar 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX117778, 10th Machine Gun Company, embarked Townsville for Torokina on board the Ormiston
12 Jun 1945:	Wounded Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX117778
7 Aug 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX117778, emplaned Bougainville for Townsville
28 Nov 1945:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, VX117778, 19 Machine Gun Regiment AMF

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Corporal Alex Charles Cameron (Service Nos:V100770/VX117778) initially served in the Militia and ACMF (31 January 1939 - 16 August 1942) as a Private attached to 38th Battalion and 17th Machine Gun Battalion, and was at Adelaide River in the Northern Territory on 17 August 1942 when he enlisted in the AIF. Corporal Cammeron was attached to 10 Australian Machine Gun Battalion on 23 March 1945 when he embarked with his Unit from Townsville for Torokina on board the Ormiston. WiA on 12 June 1945, Corporal Cameron emplaned from Bougainville for Townsville on 7 August 1945, and was attached to 19 Machine Gun Battalion at Discharge on 28 November 1945.

Alex was born in Dandenong, Victoria in 1914, second of five children of Alfred George Cameron (b1890 at Ferntree Gully, Victoria) and Agnes (Doll) Sarah Luxford (b1892 in Sale, Victoria). Alfred and Doll married in 1912 in Melbourne, and settled in Dandenong where they raised their family and Alfred was a Labourer.

Alex worked as a Shop Assistant and Grocer in Kyabram via Echuca before enlisting in the Army. In 1944 in Willaura he married Ruby Grace (aka Grace) Walker (b1916 in Willaura, Victoria). Following his Discharge, Alex and Grace lived in Tongala and Sebastopol via Ballarat, where they raised their family and Alex was a Shop Assistant and Commercial Traveller until his death in 1975. Grace died in 2003.

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